Fossilized Customs Quotes

#1. If we could see ourselves ... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

Immanuel Kant

#2. Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.

Jillian Michaels

#3. It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Taylor Caldwell

#5. Better a live dog than a dead prince

Philip K. Dick

#6. When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

#8. He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Thomas Paine